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Wikidata weekly summary #552
Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to and read the newsletter this year. If you have a moment, please let us know what you would like to see changed in the newsletter in 2023. Thank you again for your support and have a happy new year!
- Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- RPI2026F1Bot 3
- Task/s: Automatically adds qualifiers number of records (P4876) and point in time (P585) to claims of Mix'n'match catalog ID (P2264).
- Dexbot 16
- Task: Delete empty items
- RPI2026F1Bot 3
- Closed request for permissions/Bot:
- BjoeBot (approved)
- Task: Make sure all map data modules have an item and instance of (P31) of map data module (Q18711811).
- BjoeBot (approved)
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Events
- Upcoming
- The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, November 9th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
- Ongoing
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #73, Mystery theme #2
- Upcoming
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- 2022 proof of concept of a Wikibase "fast import" API. Outcomes of this workshop have been published, along with the recorded video.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- prior to last week's status update: MyAnimeList magazine ID, Online Torwali Dictionary ID, Google Product Taxonomy ID, IRIS UNIBA author ID, IRIS UNIFG author ID, IRIS LUM author ID, IRIS UNISALENTO author ID, tuxDB game ID, GCD issue ID, Geograph Deutschland image ID, ResearchGate journal ID, Lygaeoidea Species File ID, Beatport release ID, Diskograf song ID, Diskograf label ID, INKR title ID, BRUZZ topic ID, negates property, Kanjipedia kanji ID
- since last week's status update: Adventure's Planet ID, Play:Right class ID, GBDB ID, MangaUpdates publisher ID, MangaUpdates author ID, grading system, KOBIS film festival ID, Bandcamp release ID, Anime-Planet people ID, Anime-Planet character ID, Czech structural object ID, Urdu Lughat ID, Anime-Planet anime ID, Anime-Planet manga ID, Scottish National Dictionary lexeme ID, Cinematografo.it film ID (new), Cinematografo.it name or company ID (new), identifier French basketball championship (new schema), The Israeli Opera person ID (heb), Indiana State Historical Marker Program numeric ID, OpenStates person ID, ntower ID, Can I Play That? Games Codex game ID, worldofsam ID, Twitter community ID, Fascist Latin Texts author ID, Shōsetsuka ni Narō work ID, CSO topic ID, Expertes ID, MTV Germany music video ID, CCFr document ID, Crunchyroll series ID, Game-Rave ID, Dehkhoda ID, membership number, impressum URL, Parliamentary Office number in United Kingdom, Parliamentary Archives ID in United Kingdom, Mac OS creator code, 18th Century Russian Dictionary ID, Play:Right company ID, Play:Right series ID, Little Academic Dictionary ID
- New property proposals to review: Garuda journal ID, Sinta Journal ID, pixiv comic IDs, British Music Collection score ID, VideoGameGeek series-franchise ID, Autori sardi ID, ComingSoon.it person ID, UVL source ID, British Music Collection composer ID Rugby League Record Keepers Club player ID, Intercontinental Dictionary Series unit ID, Concepticon ID, Image stabilitzer, Strazha ID, N-Anime ID, Pocket Gamer ID, Image processor, Minimum focusing distance, Museo Egizio in Turin ID, amstrad.es ID, superclass of, Dark Patterns Games ID, Life stage, Tribal Council number, Objective, eBookJapan books ID, VG-lista song ID, VG-lista album ID, microtransaction.zone ID, Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online entry, use with article, Cambridge Dictionary entry, Cambridge Dictionary entry (American English), Digital Hanja Dictionary ID, MQWW poetID, record of, Classic Adventures Solution Archive game ID, MQWW workID, Macmillan Dictionary entry, Macmillan Dictionary entry (American English), Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan ID, Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary ID, Jeju's culture and language ID, Strong's number, World Loanword Database word ID, World Loanword Database meaning ID
- Query examples:
- List of nonprofit organizations / NGOs on the fediverse that Wikidata knows about (source)
- Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (Dec. 24th) (source)
- Alpha-3 codes for countries in Europe (source)
- Location of paintings in the Paintings Department of the Louvre made by women source
- Most frequent birth places for Italian SBN authors (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Due to the winter holidays, the development team is taking a break and no deployment is happening for Wikidata at the moment.
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
beneficial owner
personal experence Flacktam69 (talk) 19:06, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
- @Flacktam69, do you have a question? — Qwerfjkltalk 19:46, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
Question from Shatu buba (16:14, 27 December 2022)
Hello, You have been assigned to me as a mentor and I look forward to learning from you. Regards! --Shatu buba (talk) 16:14, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
- @Shatu buba, happy editing! — Qwerfjkltalk 19:47, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
Template looping
Hey! Just so you're aware, User:Qwerfjkl/sandbox/hasRcat/testcase was producing a template loop error. After some initial looking through, it seems the issue is probably to do with {{#invoke:Page|getContent}} in User:Qwerfjkl/sandbox/hasRcat (preprocessing it means it preprocess the call to itself, which will loop). I've implemented a temporary solution (noinclude tags), but if I may ask, what exactly is the goal with the template? The implementation seems interesting, but I can't exactly figure out what the intended output is. Aidan9382 (talk) 08:36, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
- @Aidan9382, to help with automatic rcategorisation, and avoid duplicate rcats, as described at Template talk:Redirect category shell. I plan to add rcats automatically through a template, then get the page content and remove the automatic rcat template, and then expand the page content, to work around this. — Qwerfjkltalk 08:43, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
Your draft article, Draft:Amadea (yacht)
Hello, Qwerfjkl. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Amadea".
In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.
Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 20:15, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost: 1 January 2023
- Interview: ComplexRational's RfA debrief
- Technology report: Wikimedia Foundation's Abstract Wikipedia project "at substantial risk of failure"
- Essay: Mobile editing
- Arbitration report: Arbitration Committee Election 2022
- Recent research: Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement in talk page disputes
- Featured content: Would you like to swing on a star?
- Traffic report: Football, football, football! Wikipedia Football Club!
- CommonsComix: #4: The Course of WikiEmpire
- From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
Speedy deletion nomination of Akburç (disambiguation)
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A tag has been placed on Akburç (disambiguation) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G14 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a disambiguation page which either
- disambiguates only one extant Wikipedia page and whose title ends in "(disambiguation)" (i.e., there is a primary topic);
- disambiguates zero extant Wikipedia pages, regardless of its title; or
- is an orphaned redirect with a title ending in "(disambiguation)" that does not target a disambiguation page or page that has a disambiguation-like function.
Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time. Please see the disambiguation page guidelines for more information.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 17:10, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
Happy New Year, Qwerfjkl!
Qwerfjkl,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
— Moops ⋠T⋡ 03:45, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #553
- Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- RKBot. Task/s: Create Wikidata items for "Kulturdenkmal in Hamburg" (heritage monument in Hamburg - Q28661501) from the official list "Denkmalliste Hamburg" (P1822 is the identifier for this list) published as http://static.hamburg.de/fhh/opendata/kb/DenkmallisteHamburg.xml.
- Andriy.vBot. Task/s: I need to connect a lot of pages (more than 10 thousand) about russian villages that were created with interwiki links in ukwiki.
- Heinmabot. Task/s: Add GOV ids to Polish places.
- New request for comments:
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Events
- Upcoming
- The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC on Wednesday, 18th January 2023 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
- Ongoing
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #74, Urology
- Upcoming
- Tool of the week
- OWL Map - a tool to help in linking Wikidata items with the matching object on OpenStreetMap.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: NIP, NSR doctor ID, NSR stopplace ID, Nintendo World Report ID, Nintendo-Online ID, Occitanie Livre et Lecture ID, Oh!FM-7 ID, Olympedia venue ID, Ozon person ID, Pixiv Encyclopedia ID, Plazi reference ID, Pocket Gamer ID, Programming Language Database ID, RPG Site game ID, RetroAchievements ID, Rugby League Record Keepers Club player ID, Sega-Saturn.net ID, Strong's number, Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary ID, UVL source ID, UniProt Disease ID, amstrad.es ID, camera lens, image processor, image stabilitzer, microtransaction.zone ID, minimum focusing distance, note.com user ID, sampling rate, service options
- New property proposals to review: Podbay show ID, Biblissima Authority File, Walt Disney movie ID, NTV program ID, National Grid Balancing Mechanism Unit ID, InfluenceWatch influencer, Los Angeles County Coroner's Office Case Search person ID, Hungarian Football Federation player ID, Magazine Pocket series ID, United States House of Representatives ID, PR Times company ID, NPB umpire ID, Law Insider Legal Dictionary entry, ZAMP.hr ID, Digital Library of Mathematical Functions ID, CiNii Research ID, Identificador del Catàleg de Patrimoni de l'Ajuntament de Barcelona, Green's Dictionary of Slang ID, SysTraitementEauxUsees, WikiRate company ID, The Numbers franchise ID, J.League referee ID, Jeju Dialect Dictionary ID, Military Historical Archive exile army member ID, 1001Tracklists IDs, Ivi IDs, TV Maze person ID, MyAnimeList company ID, VideoGameGeek series-franchise ID, Afisha person ID
- Query examples:
- Development
- The development team took a break during the winter holidays and as a result, no development occurred.
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
"Knook (chess)" listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Knook (chess) and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 January 4 § Knook (chess) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Randi Moth (talk) 18:01, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
Question from ArpeggioKazuya (14:30, 4 January 2023)
Hi Qwerfjkl!
I was copy editing the below article and have a question. The website/magazine highlighted in the article no longer seems to be available. It's website no longer seems to exist. How are we to handle these situations?
Thank you!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPO:) --ArpeggioKazuya (talk) 14:30, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
- @ArpeggioKazuya, SPO is a disambiguation page, and doesn't have any external links, so I presume you meant another page. You can try this tool to fix dead links. — Qwerfjkltalk 20:03, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
Decline/reject
Saw your note, saw you fixed it. The AFC submission template was broken already because the creator managed to change enough values to reset it to pending while still keeping the old decliner and rejection. I suspect this is what caused your odd experience. Primefac (talk) 21:12, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – January 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2022).
- Speedy deletion criterion A5 (transwikied articles) has been repealed following an unopposed proposal.
- Following the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Barkeep49, CaptainEek, GeneralNotability, Guerillero, L235, Moneytrees, Primefac, SilkTork.
- The 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review has concluded with many changes to the discretionary sanctions procedure including a change of the name to "contentious topics". The changes are being implemented over the coming month.
- The arbitration case Stephen has been closed.
- Voting for the Sound Logo has closed and the winner is expected to be announced February to April 2023.
- Tech tip: You can view information about IP addresses in a centralised location using bullseye which won the Newcomer award in the recent Coolest Tool Awards.
Relisting more than twice
While I'd like to thank you for closing so many CfD, WP:RELIST says, in general, debates should not be relisted more than twice.
In particular, today we had Category:English-language education, where there was 1 implied keep and 2 explicit keeps. That's usually enough to keep, as there was no support to delete.
William Allen Simpson (talk) 06:21, 6 January 2023 (UTC)
- @William Allen Simpson, there was consensus to keep that category, but Category:Language education by language was also discussed, so I tagged that category. This means that the discussion should not be closed for 7 more days, so I relisted the discussion. — Qwerfjkltalk 06:34, 6 January 2023 (UTC)
- Please update the relist tag with that explanation, as prescribed in WP:RELIST.
(It was not obvious.)Aha, you did! Thanks!
William Allen Simpson (talk) 06:43, 6 January 2023 (UTC)
- Please update the relist tag with that explanation, as prescribed in WP:RELIST.
Question from ToniToneLo (17:53, 6 January 2023)
What is your human age? --ToniToneLo (talk) 17:53, 6 January 2023 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of 1983 heat wave (disambiguation)
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A tag has been placed on 1983 heat wave (disambiguation) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G14 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a disambiguation page which either
- disambiguates only one extant Wikipedia page and whose title ends in "(disambiguation)" (i.e., there is a primary topic);
- disambiguates zero extant Wikipedia pages, regardless of its title; or
- is an orphaned redirect with a title ending in "(disambiguation)" that does not target a disambiguation page or page that has a disambiguation-like function.
Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time. Please see the disambiguation page guidelines for more information.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 09:25, 8 January 2023 (UTC)
- @Shhhnotsoloud, please don't bother notifying me of these, I've made thousands and have them all in my watchlist. Thanks! — Qwerfjkltalk 09:35, 8 January 2023 (UTC)
- @Qwerfjkl: OK thanks. I won't bother you again. They're created automatically by Twinkle and I've been picked up by an admin in the past for not using them. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 09:39, 8 January 2023 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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Thanks for doing that tedious and repetitive task for me. I am really glad it's done now. WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:36, 8 January 2023 (UTC) |
Wikidata weekly summary #554
- Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Bean49Bot 2. Task/s: Adding statements to plwikisource items with no statements.
- RPI2026F1Bot 4. Task/s: Reconstruct npm dependencies.
- Closed request for permissions/Bot:
- RKBot (approved). Task/s: Create Wikidata items for "Kulturdenkmal in Hamburg" (heritage monument in Hamburg - Q28661501) from the official list "Denkmalliste Hamburg" (P1822 is the identifier for this list) published as http://static.hamburg.de/fhh/opendata/kb/DenkmallisteHamburg.xml.
- Andriy.vBot (approved). Task/s: I need to connect a lot of pages (more than 10 thousand) about russian villages that were created with interwiki links in ukwiki.
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Events
- Upcoming
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call January 10, 2023: Egon Willighagen will be introducing us to SARS-CoV-2 queries, a well-documented series of Wikidata queries around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the pandemic. This work contributes to Wikiproject COVID-19 and documentation is currently available in Japanese, Dutch, Spanish, and Portuguese. Agenda
- Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—January 11, 2023. Time: 16:00-17:00 UTC / 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CET
- The full version of View it! Tool is out! The new user script uses structured data to display related media in any Wikimedia content pages—including Wikidata items—in an on-wiki image panel or gallery view. Please join the public launch and demo of the full version of this new tool on Thursday, January 12th, 5:00 UTC via Zoom (Meeting ID: 160 454 5329) to learn more and discuss forthcoming editing features.
- The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC on Wednesday, 18th January 2023 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
- About 2 months left to register for the first digital@IANLS workshop: Learn the basics of Wikidata and how to use it in your Neo-Latin research. Event is online, free, and open to all. More info on event and registration.
- Ongoing
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #75, Tools
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Videos
- Papers
- "Is GPT-3 a Good Data Annotator?" with experiments based on Wikidata - guided generation of labeled data.
- Slides
- Tool of the week
- Web Hub allows users to navigate between origin and destination on the web using information from Wikidata, primarily on Wikimedia sites.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Digital Dictionary of the German Language completed their first iteration of Lexicographical data donation to Wikidata. The number of German lexemes increased accordingly by 185000.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: travel advisory category, model lexeme, does not use
- External identifiers: NIP, UniProt disease ID, DBpia journal ID, Garuda journal ID, Hungarian Film Archive person ID, ComingSoon.it person ID, DBpia publisher ID, Disused stations ID, MQWW poet ID, Nîmes cemeteries ID, REGON ID, Shōsetsuka ni Narō user ID, Sinta journal ID, Sinta author ID, SMA ID, Spiritains ID, Strazha ID, Tabelog restaurant ID, TV Maze person ID, utas.hu ID, VG-lista album ID, Afisha person ID, Catalogo storico ragionato degli scrittori sardi dal IV al XXI secolo ID, Macmillan Dictionary entry (British English), Macmillan Dictionary entry (American English), Wyndham hotel ID, VideoGameGeek series/franchise ID, Plex GUID, Digital Hanja Dictionary ID, Africultures structure ID, Military Historical Archive exile army member ID, The Israeli Opera (English) person ID, J.League referee ID, PodLink ID, VG-lista song ID, Webtoon creator ID, WikiRate company ID, Yahoo! Japan News publisher ID, Concepticon ID, Ès lettres ID, Dictionary of Variant Chinese Characters ID, eBookJapan books ID, STEDT ID, Matrix room, British Music Collection score ID, Nişanyan Sözlük lexeme ID, Green's Dictionary of Slang ID, Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online entry, Anadolu Agency infographic ID, Infopédia entry
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: change of, salary level, applies to property, protected entity, Wikidata property example for qualifiers
- External identifiers: Britannica Kids kids level article ID, Britannica Kids students level article ID, Britannica Kids scholars level article ID, Online Aboriginal Language Dictionary ID, International Encoded Han Character and Variants Database character ID, A Comparative Study of Modern Chinese and Cantonese ID, J-STAGE journal ID, Sens critique contributor ID, PlaymakerStats.com competition ID, The Homicide Report person ID, Film.ru serial ID, identifiant SFMTA, California Birth Index person ID, esid, The Counted person ID, Russiancinema.ru person ID, Roblox experience ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- REST API: Preparing the first release to test.wikidata.org on January 17th and to Wikidata on January 24th
- Entity Schemas: Continuing to investigate and prototype technical approaches for version 2
- Mismatch Finder: Working on giving mismatch providers access to the reviews of the mismatches they uploaded (phab:T304794)
- Investigated how to best do language switching for the Query Builder and Mismatch Finder. So far they only support it by specifying the language via a URL parameter and not yet via the UI (phab:T324653)
- Query Service:
- Lexeme IDs now have tooltips so you can see the Lemma in the SPARQL code, similar as for Items and Properties (phab:T255245)
- Fixed a bug where the y-axis label on a graph were misaligned and hard to read (phab:T325808)
- Lexicographical data:
- Statements linking to a Sense now also show the language of the Lexeme to make it easier to see for example which language a translation statement refers to (phab:T207392)
- Fixed a bug in the language dropdown on Special:NewLexeme (phab:T324743)
- The Lemma of a Lexeme is now shown in the title of the revision history of the Lexeme as well (phab:T312660)
- Vector 2022 theme: worked on making the search on Wikidata work in this new theme. You can test it on test.wikidata.org now and next week on Wikidata. (phab:T316093)
- mul language code:
- Continued investigation around how to handle language fallbacks on mobile, which is a blocker for adding this language code (phab:T323098)
- Preventing the addition of descriptions for mul (phab:T313027)
- Constraint violations: Working on also showing them to non-logged in users (phab:T272132)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Tech News: 2023-02
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- You can use tags to filter edits in the recent changes feed or on your watchlist. You can now use tags to filter out edits you don't want to see. Previously you could only use tags to focus on the edits with those tags. [1]
- Special:WhatLinksHere shows all pages that link to a specific page. There is now a prototype for how to sort those pages alphabetically. You can see the discussion in the Phabricator ticket.
- You can now use the thanks function on your watchlist and the user contribution page. [2]
- A wiki page can be moved to give it a new name. You can now get a dropdown menu with common reasons when you move a page. This is so you don't have to write the explanation every time. [3]
- Matrix is a chat tool. You can now use
matrix:
to create Matrix links on wiki pages. [4] - You can filter out translations when you look at the recent changes on multilingual wikis. This didn't hide translation pages. You can now also hide subpages which are translation pages. [5]
Changes later this week
- Realtime preview for wikitext is a tool which lets editors preview the page when they edit wikitext. It will be enabled for all users of the 2010 wikitext editor. You will find it in the editor toolbar.
- Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 10 January at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 12 January at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 January. It will be on all wikis from 12 January (calendar).
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A barnstar for you!
The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar | |
Thank you for participating in Articles for Creation's January 2023 Backlog Drive! You reviewed 52 drafts, for a total of 53 points. — Ingenuity (talk • contribs) 00:41, 15 January 2023 (UTC) |
The Signpost: 16 January 2023
- Special report: Coverage of 2022 bans reveals editors serving long sentences in Saudi Arabia since 2020
- News and notes: Revised Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines up for vote, WMF counsel departs, generative models under discussion
- In the media: Court orders user data in libel case, Saudi Wikipedia in the crosshairs, Larry Sanger at it again
- Technology report: View it! A new tool for image discovery
- In focus: Busting into Grand Central
- Serendipity: How I bought part of Wikipedia – for less than $100
- Featured content: Flip your lid
- Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2022
- From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
Question from Mdparlette (10:12, 16 January 2023)
Want to change my username --Mdparlette (talk) 10:12, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
- @Mdparlette, I would recommend just creating a new account, as you have only made one edit with this account. — Qwerfjkltalk 16:17, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #555
- Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- RenmBot 2. Task/s: The bot adds/edits labels/descriptions of Wikidata items in Ukrainian. At the beginning, the bot will correct "проект" to "проєкт" in descriptions. These changes are caused by Ukrainian orthography of 2019 (Q56368731) (see en:Ukrainian orthography of 2019#Major changes to the 1993 orthography).
- Bean49Bot 3. Task/s: Add parent astronomical body to asteroid belt asteroids, required by multiple constraints.
- JhsBot 7. Task/s: Change stress markings on Norwegian Bokmål lexeme IPA transcription (P898) statements.
- Closed request for permissions/Bot: Heinmabot. Task/s: Add GOV ids to Polish places. (approved)
- Closed request for comments: Adopt Help:SitelinksToRedirects as policy (implemented)
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Events
- Upcoming
- The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC on Wednesday, 18th January 2023 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
- Wikimedia Research Showcase on January 18. Featuring a presentation of the paper Learning to Predict the Departure Dynamics of Wikidata Editors.
- Next LD4 Wikibase Working Hour on Tuesday 17th January: Update on wikibase.cloud by Evelien Zandbergen, product manager for Wikibase.cloud at Wikimedia Deutschland.
- Ongoing
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #76, Wikipedia
- Past
- LD4-Wikidata Group Call: Wikidata Queries around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and pandemic, 10th January.
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Videos/Audios
- Mémoires minoritaires, mémoires LGBTI (French): Documenting Queer (LGBTIQ+) history on Wikipedia and Wikidata (Radio/Podcast) (source)
- LIVE Wikidata editing #102 - YouTube
- Wikispore, Wikidata, and Small Wikis with Sam Wilson - YouTube
- Introduction to Wikidata with Alex Lum (2022) - YouTube
- iPres 2022 - Long Paper 153: A Digital Preservation Wikibase - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- Auhority Control data to Wikidata item - helps to create Wikidata Items based on authority control records.
- A new Wikidata distributed game that populates instance of statements using a neural network.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- You can apply for a scholarship for Wikimania.
- Call for projects and mentors for Google Summer of Code 2023 and Outreachy Round 26 is ongoing!
- The upcoming steward elections are open for nominations.
- Wikibase Suite: wmde.10 (Mediawiki 1.38) compatible release updates
- Applications are open now for Wikidata Fellowship by Wikimedia Australia
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: does not use: item or concept not used by the subject but that could have been expected, member of Roman tribe: Roman tribe in which one was inscribed
- External identifiers: Infopédia entry, 1001Tracklists track ID, 1001Tracklists DJ ID, 1001Tracklists source ID, MyAnimeList company ID, MQWW work ID, Biblissima Authority File, Kitsu manga ID, Kitsu anime ID, CiNii Research ID, Digital Library of Mathematical Functions ID, United States House of Representatives ID, ComicWalker content ID, The Numbers franchise ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: heir or beneficiary: people or organizations that received, or will receive, (all or part of) the subject's property or title, disinherited: someone who received or will receive no or little the subject's property or title even if otherwise eligible, (partially) the opposite of Wikidata:Property proposal/heir or beneficiary, Northstar Travel’s 10-Tier Classification System: [none], 神奇宝贝百科页面标识符: article name on 52Poké Wiki, a Pokémon encyclopedia, value contains sense: qualifier to indicate the sense of a lexeme part of a monolingual text value, form applies to sense: this form is only or mainly applicable this sense, clan: [none]
- External identifiers: Landgate Object ID, IRIS Trentino-South Tyrol IDs, IRIS Venice IDs, Sinta affiliation ID, Knowledge portal ID, Fréjus et Toulon ID, MangaSeek IDs, Dicionário Priberam ID, Michaelis ID, Dicionário Aulete ID, Dicionário Aberto ID, Léxico ID, Dicio ID, GamesRadar+ ID, Bosworth-Toller's Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online ID, Online Etymology Dictionary ID, norsk fangeregister soningsinstitusjon ID, Dictionary of the Russian Language (Ozhegov) ID, Great Encyclopedic Dictionary ID, AllMovie genre ID, Artlog person ID, Artlog institution ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Vector 2020 skin: the search that works properly with Wikidata has been deployed
- Entity Schemas: Making progress on the proof of concept that will help us figure out the technical way forward
- REST API: getting ready to deploy the first version to test.wikidata.org on February 17th
- Lexicographical data: When linking to a Sense in a statement the language of the Lexeme for that Sense is now also shown. This makes it easier to understand translation statements for example (phab:T207392)
- Constraints: Constraint violations are now also shown to logged out users (phab:T272132)
- Fixing a regression where Wikipedia and co are no longer notified about a disconnected sitelink when the Item that contains the sitelink is deleted (phab:T326082)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Tech News: 2023-03
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- The URLs in "prev" links on page history now contain
diff=prev&oldid=[revision ID]
in place ofdiff=[revision ID]&oldid=[revision ID]
. This is to fix a problem with links pointing to incorrect diffs when history was filtered by a tag. Some user scripts may break as a result of this change. [6]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 January. It will be on all wikis from 19 January (calendar).
- Some changes to the appearance of talk pages have only been available on
Talk:
andUser talk:
namespaces. These will be extended to other talk namespaces, such asWikipedia talk:
. They will continue to be unavailable in non-talk namespaces, includingWikipedia:
pages (e.g., at the Village Pump). You can change your preferences (beta feature). [7] - On Wikisources, when an image is zoomed or panned in the Page: namespace, the same zoom and pan settings will be remembered for all Page: namespace pages that are linked to a particular Index: namespace page. [8]
- The Vector 2022 skin will become the default for the English Wikipedia desktop users. The change will take place on January 18 at 15:00 UTC. Learn more.
Future changes
- The 2023 edition of the Community Wishlist Survey, which invites contributors to make technical proposals and vote for tools and improvements, starts next week on 23 January 2023 at 18:00 UTC. You can start drafting your proposals in the CWS sandbox.
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Question from Walker2023 (05:40, 17 January 2023)
Hello are you live? --Walker2023 (talk) 05:40, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
- @Walker2023, I'm sorry, what is your question? — Qwerfjkltalk 07:03, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
hasRcat/testcase
Hello! Would you mind removing the invalid rcats on User:Qwerfjkl/sandbox/hasRcat/testcase to prevent it being categorized in Category:Pages with incorrectly transcluded templates? I don't want to mess anything up. Thanks! ~ Eejit43 (talk) 23:32, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
Question from Dynamitesole3 (08:09, 19 January 2023)
Hi. i am trying to learn how to write an extensive article about my favourite actor who isn't on wikipedia. --Dynamitesole3 (talk) 08:09, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
- @Dynamitesole3, Welcome! Creating a new article from scratch is extremely challenging, and new editors are strongly recommended to spend a few months learning how Wikipedia works, by making improvements to some of our existing six million articles before trying it. When you do decide to have a go at a new article, you are highly encouraged to read WP:Your first article. If you haven't already also check out WP:TUTORIAL; it's a lot of fun! Happy editing! — Qwerfjkltalk 16:56, 19 January 2023 (UTC)